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Test #3 Flashcards

1
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Stress

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Is process by which we perceive and respond to certain events called stressors that we appraise as threatening or challenging

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2
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Catastrophes

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Unpleasant large scale events

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3
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Significant life changes

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Personal life transitions

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4
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Daily hassles and social stress

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Day to day challenges

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5
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General adaption syndrome

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Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion

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6
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Tend and befriend

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Nurturing and banding together

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7
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Psychoneuroimmunologists

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Study mind-body interactions including stress related physical illness (stress induced headaches)

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8
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Stress and cancer

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Stress doesn’t create cancer cells but if you are stressed and don’t have healthy immune system cancer cells can’t be destroyed

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9
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What play a role in heart disease?

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Stress and personality

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Type A personality

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Competitive hard driven impatient verbally aggressive angry more likely to have a heart attack

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Type B

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Easy going relaxed less likely to have heart problems

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Type D

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People who surprises negative emotions to avoid social disapproval

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13
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Catharsis

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The idea of releasing aggressive energy relieves aggressive urge

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14
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Coping

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Reduced stress using emotional , cognitive or behavioral methods

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15
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Problem focused coping

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Attempting to reduce stress directly -by changing the stressor or the way we interact that stressor

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16
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Emotion-focused coping

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Attempting to reduce stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction

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17
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External locus of control

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That chance or outside forces control their fate

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18
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Internal locus of control

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Believe they are in control of their own destiny

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19
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Pessimists

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Expects things to go badly

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20
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Optimism

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Expect to have control

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21
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Aerobic exercise

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Sustained activity that increases heart and lung fitness may also reduce anxiety or depression

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22
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Mindfulness meditation

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Relaxing and silently attending to your inner state without judging it

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23
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Positive psychology

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Scientific study of human functioning with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive

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24
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Three pillars of positive psychology

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Positive well being
Positive character
Positive groups and communities

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25
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Adaption level phenomenon

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Happiness is relative to our own experiences

26
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Relative deprivation principle

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Happiness is related to others success

27
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Personality

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An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting

28
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Unconscious

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A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts which we are unaware of

29
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Free association

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In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

30
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ID

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Reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives basic sexual and aggressive drives

31
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Ego

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The largely unconscious “executive” part of personality that operates on the reality principle

32
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Superego

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Focuses on ideal behavior strives for perfections

33
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Oral stage

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Pleasure is the mouth

34
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Anal stage

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Pleasure focuses on bladder and bowel elimination

35
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Phallic stage

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Pleasure zone is genitals

36
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Latency

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A phase of sexual feeling

37
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Genital stage

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Maturation of sexual interests

38
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Defense mechanisms

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Are the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by indirectly and unconsciously distorting reality

39
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Denial

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Refusing to believe

40
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Displacement

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Shifting sexual and aggressive impulses towards something else

41
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Rationalization

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Offering self justifying explanations in place of the real more threatening unconscious reason for action

42
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Regression

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Retreating to more infantile psychosexual stage

43
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Reaction formation

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Switching unacceptable impulses by attributing them to others

44
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Alfred Adler

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Believed that much of our behavior is driven by efforts to conquer childhood inferiority feelings

45
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Karen Horney

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Childhood anxiety triggers our desire for love and security

46
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Carl jung

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Collective unconscious

47
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Projective test

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Personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of ones inner dynamics

48
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Thematic apperception test

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Projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through stories of scenes

49
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Rorschach test

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Set of ink blots test

50
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Abraham Maslow

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Hierarchy of needs, self actualization , self transcendence

51
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Carl rogers

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Unconditional positive regard, self concept

52
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Traits

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Characteristic patterns of behavior or ways of feeling and acting

53
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Personality inventory

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Questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors

54
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MMPI

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Most used personality test. Originally developed to find emotional disorders

55
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Ocean

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Openness 
Consciousness 
Extraversion 
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
56
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Person situation controversy

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Behavior influenced by interaction of our inner disposition with our environment

57
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Reciprocal determinism

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The interaction influences behavior, internal, cognition, and environment

58
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Self

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In contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality.

59
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Spotlight affect

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Overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders

60
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Self serving bias

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A readiness to perceive oneself favorably

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